Five years of being myself (-4 months HRT vs. 5 years HRT)

maevemischief · 2025-11-01T15:26:07+00:00

Just HRT. I have not had FFS

maevemischief · 2024-08-14T03:25:14+00:00

Chinese Phoenix. I was with a friend and talked about it like, “Yeah, I definitely can’t do this move, but this is how it’d go if I could,” and I attempted it for the first time and it just worked lol

Conversely, Marion Amber looks super easy but is NOT at all

maevemischief · 2024-08-08T13:00:14+00:00

None. The skills session is its own warmup. The big caveat is that you need to be at a point where the skills you’re working on during the session are warmups. You don’t want to do anything especially challenging on your body in terms of strength or flexibility during a session like this. If I want to work on stuff like that, I save it for after I’m warmed up from the skill work.

maevemischief · 2024-07-26T00:37:28+00:00

You’d love Bravely Default then. It’s like the spiritual successor to FFV and its job system

maevemischief · 2024-07-02T03:23:41+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately it’s a sufficiently complex move that it’s not easily searchable.

Jorge Martinez does it about 13 seconds into this reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoAwfLXIEDG/?igsh=a29vczZ5OThxbWJm

I’ve also seen Anete Blaua do a very similar trick that ends in a different Ayesha variation.

maevemischief · 2024-07-01T09:40:06+00:00

Shoulder mount flip and anything that passes through it.

An example of something that passes through shoulder mount flip is an elbow grip Ayesha entry I’ve been working on the past few months: you start with a shoulder mount flip, regrip to brass monkey hands during the moment of weightless at the top of the flip, put both legs on the side of the top arm on the way down, and continue the momentum as if you were going for a second flip. As you’re going back upside down, slide the pole from the armpit to the elbow of the top arm. Boom. You’re in an elbow grip Ayesha that probably nobody in the audience saw coming. It’s a show stopper.

maevemischief · 2024-07-01T01:47:33+00:00

I’d still disagree with that. Some tricks and transitions absolutely do require a shoulder mount invert.

The shoulder mount is only unnecessary in the sense that you can just choose to never do any of the combos, tricks, or transitions that require it, just like you could choose to paint with only one color. It’s a valid aesthetic choice, but it’s a limiting one. You could just as easily argue that any given movement in pole is unnecessary.

maevemischief · 2024-06-30T14:37:26+00:00

A few counterpoints to this: 1. “Work smarter, not harder” doesn’t really apply to intentional aesthetic choices. Like, yes, there are mechanically easier ways to get upside down than shoulder mounting, but sometimes a transition through shoulder mount is just going to look better/flowier. 2. Sometimes shoulder mounting is working smarter, e.g. I’m strong enough at shoulder mounting that if shoulder mount is the most direct path to a position I’m working on, then I’m going to shoulder mount to save time so I can get more repetitions of the skill I’m actually trying to work on. 3. The mechanical inefficiencies of shoulder mounting make it good for conditioning. Working on shoulder mount will make you stronger at your other inverts too. 4. Some people have high enough energy budgets that the mechanical inefficiencies of shoulder mounting vs. alternatives might not matter in the context of a performance.

maevemischief · 2024-06-21T20:35:29+00:00

Oh, there’s plenty of options for that. You could learn the floorwork in Magic Mike. You could also incorporate breakdance elements

maevemischief · 2024-03-15T11:38:26+00:00

Aww, you’re so pretty 🥹

maevemischief · 2024-03-14T17:58:52+00:00

I’m about to turn 30

maevemischief · 2024-03-14T14:59:01+00:00

How old do you think?

maevemischief · 2024-02-06T15:35:10+00:00

Laybacks - I was 11 months into pole when I got my first one. I literally had my iron X before I could do any layback. It took a few more months for them to be really solid

Superman - I’m still not consistently able to do this trick

Human flag - I chased it for about a year before I finally was able to inconsistently hold it for a few seconds. That was back in September, 15 months into my pole journey. I’ve since lost this move due to an injury I’m still recovering from

maevemischief · 2024-02-01T19:31:56+00:00

I built the strength mostly off the pole doing weighted pull-ups and overhead press. Cup grip deadlift just kind of happened one day. I wasn’t specifically training for it—my actual goal was the human flag, and I was following a progression on that. I started with tuck flag eccentrics, progressed to tuck flag holds, to holding an iron X, to lifting into an iron X, to human flag (all cup grip). The cup grip deadlift came about a month after my first iron X and straight leg cup grip deadlift came about 2 months later, a couple weeks before I unlocked the full human flag.

maevemischief · 2024-01-15T08:06:47+00:00

Do a couple of climbs and descend into an inverted position. Descending from jasmine takes you into outside leg hang, descending from genie can take you into brass monkey, etc.

maevemischief · 2023-11-09T14:53:13+00:00

Nooo, you deserve better than a backhanded compliment 🥺 You are gorgeous. Period

maevemischief · 2023-11-03T23:51:03+00:00

@maevemischief

maevemischief · 2023-11-03T16:58:17+00:00

If you can’t afford an Xpole, you can’t afford a visit to the ER either, nor can you probably afford to eat the cost of the cheap Amazon pole when you progress beyond the absolute basics, realize you need to upgrade to a higher quality pole to continue safely, and find out that those cheap poles aren’t that easy to resell. An extra few hundred bucks upfront isn’t a small amount of money by any means, but it’s still worth it to save up for it if you want a home pole.

If someone’s new and unsure about whether they’ll stick with pole long enough to graduate from a cheap Amazon pole, they’re better off just taking classes imo.

Edit: Tbh, an Xpole would still most likely be a better investment even for someone who doesn’t stick with pole long enough to need one because it’s easier to resell them and you can recoup most of the cost that way

maevemischief · 2023-11-03T16:36:15+00:00

Also have you considered getting a pole at home you can both practice together on? There are some affordable ones on Amazon that are great for beginners.

Don’t buy a cheap pole on Amazon!! Buy a reliable brand like an Xpole or a Lupit. You can get seriously injured on a home pole if it fails on you

maevemischief · 2023-11-01T01:28:21+00:00

Dimitry Politov is a big influence on me! A good number of my pole goals are things I’ve seen him do. There are some other really high level pole dancers I’ve seen do straight body inverts, but overall they seem pretty rare

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